Archaeology Day
Saturday 15 June 2024
Almere has a richer history than you think! During the Archaeology Day on Saturday 15 June, you can learn all about Almere's history. The activities are for young and old, discover all about prehistory, shipwrecks and much more!
Feast and Play
Saturday and Sunday from 12.00 to 20.00
Enrico Fermi Street 30
Discover the archaeological discovery playground at pancake house Smullen en Spelen. Here you can eat in a place where 10,000 years ago the Hunters and Gatherers actually ate.
Get a stamp at one of the participating locations during National Archaeology Day in Almere and get a free pancake at Smullen en Spelen!
- With a full stamp card, children up to 17 years receive a free children's pancake at Smullen en Spelen
- The full stamp card can be handed in at Smullen en Spelen until July 1, 2024.
- On Saturdays from 3pm-6pm, an actor will show how people lived here in the Stone Age
- On Sunday from 12.00-14.00, a real archaeologist will show you how to look underground.
VINDplaats Zenit (10-15 years)
Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Sumatraweg 2
In prehistory you have to make everything yourself, which is why today at VINDplaats Zenit you can get to work building huts, making soup on a homemade fire and painting burlap. You can also search for finds yourself as an archaeologist, by metal detecting or digging up shards. There is also a prehistoric re-enactor who will show you how people used to live in this place and how to carve flint.
Shipwrecks
Take a journey through the history of the Zuiderzee with a visit to one or more of the 27 shipwrecks investigated in Almere.
Discover all wrecks »
History of Almere
The oldest bones found in the Netherlands come from the soil of the Netherlands' youngest province. The fact that Flevoland as we know it came into being only after 1900 does not mean that nobody lived there before then. Thousands of years ago, before the land was inundated by the sea.
Discover the history of Almere >>
